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Commission File Number 1-15250

 

 

 

 

 

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant files or will file annual reports under cover Form 20-F or Form 40-F.  Form 20-F ___X___ Form 40-F _______

 Indicate by check mark whether the registrant by furnishing the information contained in this Form is also thereby furnishing the information to the Commission pursuant to Rule 12g3-2(b) under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.  

Yes _______ No ___X____

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Cidade de Deus, Osasco, SP, December 22, 2014

 

 

 

Securities and Exchange Commission

Office of International Corporate Finance

Division of Corporate Finance

Washington, DC

 

 

MATERIAL FACT

 

 

Banco Bradesco S.A.’s Board of Directors, in a meeting held today, resolved to approve the Board of Executive Officer’s proposal, registered in the Special Meeting of the Board of Executive Officers #1,917, as of December 8, 2014, for the payment to the company’s shareholders of complementary interest on shareholders’ equity in the amount of R$2,600,300,000.00, in which R$0.590325800 per common share and R$0.649358380 per preferred share.

 

Shall be benefited the shareholders registered in the Company’s books on this date (December 22, 2014 – statement date), so that the Company’s shares will be traded “ex-right” on complementary interest
from December 23, 2014 on.

 

The payment will be made on March 6, 2015 in the net amount of R$0.501776930 per common share and R$0.551954623 per preferred share, already net of Withholding Income Tax of 15% (fifteen percent), except for corporate shareholders who are exempt from the referred tax.

 

Complementary Interest:

 

1.    represent, approximately, 31.4 times the amount of the interest on shareholders’ equity paid
monthly;  and

 

2.    will be computed, net of Withholding Income Tax, in the calculation of mandatory dividends of the fiscal year, as provided in the bylaws.

 

The referred interest related to the shares in custody of BM&FBOVESPA S.A. – Bolsa de Valores, Mercadorias e Futuros (Securities, Commodities and Future Exchange) will be paid to the referred BM&FBOVESPA, which will pay to the titleholders of the shares by means of the custody agents.  

 

Following, there is a demonstrative of the paid and to be paid amounts related to 2014:  

 

In R$

 

Per share in R$

 

The Company will be able, based in the result to be appreciated in the closure of the fiscal year of 2014, to distribute new interest and/or dividends to shareholders.

 

Cordially,

 

Banco Bradesco S.A.

Moacir Nachbar Junior

Adjunct Executive Officer

 

 

 

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